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The US Environmental Law System Should Be Stricter
Introduction At the moment, the USA is a country, which possesses the strong environmental legislation and control. It is a predecessor of ecology because it was the first one to suffer from impertinence for nature. Within the 1960s and 1970s, some of the urbanized and industrialized areas of the United States were on the verge of the environmenta...
Criminal Law: Mens Rea and Actus Reus
1. Introduction Distinguishing between actus reus (conduct/guilty act) and mens rea (intent/mental state) has been one of the most basic processes used by lawyers, judges, and other personnel in the legal field. In addition, the offense-defense is also a part of the process used to analyze and conceptualize liability. Overall, this is what is iden...
Policy Analysis: Legislation of Medical Marijuana
Problem Analysis The question of medical marijuana has been one of the most debatable recently. The problem of marijuana prohibition is that sick patients do not have legal access to the treatment that is the most effective for them. In particular, for many people, marijuana is the only medicine that can reduce pain or symptoms of their illnesses ...
Voidable Contract
The definitions of terms in the field of contract law are at times intriguing. The distinction between the various notions is often not clear to a significant proportion of people. The expression voidable contract is often confused with a void contract. According to Schaefer, the problem is a trifled issue that is, however, a widespread phenomenon....
Immigration Issues
Introduction Immigration refers to the entry of people into a country in which they are not citizens with the intention of settling as naturalized citizens, migrant workers, and permanent residents (Borjas, 2014). When people reach their destination, they come to be referred to as immigrants/migrants. Some of the reasons why people move from their ...
Merton’s Strain Theory
Merton’s strain theory states that criminal activities occur when there is a gap between society’s shared goals and legal means of attaining them. In his theory, Merton pointed out that the most important goal of society is to achieve wealth (as cited in Einstadter & Henry, 2011). In order to receive it, there are numerous institutional mea...
Future Trends in International Criminal Justice
The criminal justice system is a corroboration of three significant departments, which are law enforcement, justice, and corrections. Additionally, factors that influenced crime in the past also impact the future trends of the criminal justice system. The factors include macro-economic factors, shift in demographics and criminal justice responses. ...
Three Strikes Law
California voters enacted the Three Strikes and You Are Out law in 1994. The enactment was as a response to a situation at that time that involved the tragic murder of Polly Klass and Kimber Reynolds. The enacted law approved the imposition of a life sentence to almost any crime, without taking into consideration the magnitude of the crime if the d...